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Richard 'Dick' Doherty

Doherty, Dick, Lance Corporal, 19155, A Company, 11th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Disembarked for service 31st August 1915
Born Calver, Derbyshire
Enlisted Buxton, Derbyshire
Resided Calver
Killed in action 1st July 1916 aged 22
Son of Mrs. Ellen Doherty, of Newburgh Terrace, Calver, Sheffield.
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial

1911 Census
A farm labourer
Son of Ellen Doherty, a cotton mill cop winder, of Calver, Derbyshire

(Photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 5th August 1916)

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